<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Hello MacTim,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">It is a very bad idea in its present form. It is difficult to see this as anything other than a move to control the Internet by an anachronistic proposal to nationalize the allocation of Internet address space. The idea of 'country-wide' and </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; "> 'contiguous' </span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">allocation together with </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; ">the implied idea of 'All IPv6 addresses ONLY through the National Internet Registry', </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; "> would result in the unintended(?) outcome of reducing the Internet from being a free, open and universal medium to a Government controlled communication platform defined by national boundaries. </span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">It is likely that this is another proposal that is a reflection of wrong inputs to the policy makers. The ISPs do not require any form of Government help in the process of obtaining address blocks from the Regional Internet Registry. </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; ">They need to be free, and continue with the status quo of uncomplicated processes in obtaining address blocks. With the relatively unlimited IPv6 space, the RIR processes could actually become a lot less complicated.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Static IPv4 addresses have been expensive for the end-user in India, hope this will not be case with IPv6 address, on the present model of RIR - ISP relationship, free of Government mediation. </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; ">With continued freedom, could we hope that the ISPs in India make it an automatic process for the end-users to obtain static IPv6 user blocks for connecting their computers and other devices, without bundling IP addresses with expensive bandwidth subscription plans? </span></div>
<font color="#333333"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></font></font></font>Sivasubramanian M<div>India.<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:02 PM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Pranesh Prakash <<a href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org">pranesh@cis-india.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> There was a thread on India-GII discussing this. Folks on this list<br>
> might find it of interest.<br>
><br>
> The first post, by Suresh Ramasubramanian (who finds the Indian proposal<br>
> a ghastly idea):<br>
<br>
</div>That's because it is.<br>
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> <a href="http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/arc/india-gii/2011-09/msg00121.html" target="_blank">http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/arc/india-gii/2011-09/msg00121.html</a><br>
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I will check it out, thanks!<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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McTim<br>
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